RE: Advice on which FreeBSD firewall package to choose.

2007-01-07 Thread Brett Davidson
Thanks to everyone who responded. It looks like pfsense will do the job nicely. Cheers, Brett. -Original Message- From: Eric [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, 5 January 2007 10:52 a.m. To: Brett Davidson Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Advice on which FreeBSD firewall

Re: Advice on which FreeBSD firewall package to choose.

2007-01-05 Thread Albert Shih
Le 05/01/2007 à 10:25:30+1300, Brett Davidson a écrit Before I start, I'm familiar with IPTables from Linux but am wanting to use FreeBSD as a firewalling router after seeing it in action on a heavily-loaded webserver. I like the efficiency of the TCP stack. Upon reading the handbook I

Re: Advice on which FreeBSD firewall package to choose.

2007-01-05 Thread Matthew Seaman
Atom Powers wrote: On 1/4/07, Eric [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Brett Davidson wrote: Before I start, I'm familiar with IPTables from Linux but am wanting to use FreeBSD as a firewalling router after seeing it in action on a heavily-loaded webserver. I like the efficiency of the TCP stack.

Re: Advice on which FreeBSD firewall package to choose.

2007-01-05 Thread Agus
It seems is unanimousPF it isremember u have to compile the Kernel to activate this, i´ve done it for the first time, yesterday and its very simplealso checkout the ALTQ for QoS, good luck 2007/1/5, Matthew Seaman [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Atom Powers wrote: On 1/4/07, Eric [EMAIL

Re: Advice on which FreeBSD firewall package to choose.

2007-01-05 Thread Eric
Agus wrote: It seems is unanimousPF it isremember u have to compile the Kernel to activate this, i´ve done it for the first time, yesterday and its very simplealso checkout the ALTQ for QoS, good luck just pf does not require touching the kernel, you can load the module, you just

Re: Advice on which FreeBSD firewall package to choose.

2007-01-05 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On 1/5/07, Agus [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It seems is unanimousPF it isremember u have to compile the Kernel to activate this, i´ve done it for the first time, yesterday and its very simplealso checkout the ALTQ for QoS, good luck Does PF and/or ipfilter have ipv6 support? I'm

Re: Advice on which FreeBSD firewall package to choose.

2007-01-05 Thread Eric
Michael P. Soulier wrote: On 1/5/07, Agus [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It seems is unanimousPF it isremember u have to compile the Kernel to activate this, i´ve done it for the first time, yesterday and its very simplealso checkout the ALTQ for QoS, good luck Does PF and/or ipfilter

Advice on which FreeBSD firewall package to choose.

2007-01-04 Thread Brett Davidson
Before I start, I'm familiar with IPTables from Linux but am wanting to use FreeBSD as a firewalling router after seeing it in action on a heavily-loaded webserver. I like the efficiency of the TCP stack. Upon reading the handbook I found that I can have my choice of three firewalls; pf, iptables

Re: Advice on which FreeBSD firewall package to choose.

2007-01-04 Thread Eric
Brett Davidson wrote: Before I start, I'm familiar with IPTables from Linux but am wanting to use FreeBSD as a firewalling router after seeing it in action on a heavily-loaded webserver. I like the efficiency of the TCP stack. Upon reading the handbook I found that I can have my choice of three

Re: Advice on which FreeBSD firewall package to choose.

2007-01-04 Thread Jeremy Jongsma
I can't speak to the advantages or disadvantages of each of those options, but from other lists I get the sense the pf is the best option out there. If you want something quick to setup, pfSense and m0n0wall are prebuilt firewall packages based on FreeBSD that will do exactly what you're looking

RE: Advice on which FreeBSD firewall package to choose.

2007-01-04 Thread Thomas Mullins
, 2007 4:26 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Advice on which FreeBSD firewall package to choose. Before I start, I'm familiar with IPTables from Linux but am wanting to use FreeBSD as a firewalling router after seeing it in action on a heavily-loaded webserver. I like the efficiency of the TCP

Re: Advice on which FreeBSD firewall package to choose.

2007-01-04 Thread Atom Powers
On 1/4/07, Eric [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Brett Davidson wrote: Before I start, I'm familiar with IPTables from Linux but am wanting to use FreeBSD as a firewalling router after seeing it in action on a heavily-loaded webserver. I like the efficiency of the TCP stack. Upon reading the